Hello, first of all: thank you for spotting this and sending a patch! On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 4:49 PM Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_encoder_hdmi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_encoder_hdmi.c > index 5e306de6f485..f3341458f8b7 100644 > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_encoder_hdmi.c > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_encoder_hdmi.c > @@ -363,6 +363,7 @@ int meson_encoder_hdmi_init(struct meson_drm *priv) > } > > meson_encoder_hdmi->next_bridge = of_drm_find_bridge(remote); > + of_node_put(remote); further down in the same function remote is used again: pdev = of_find_device_by_node(remote); My understanding is that we should only use of_node_put() once we don't need to access the node (in this case the variable is "remote") anymore. Best regards, Martin